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In reply to the discussion: Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)22. #6: Yves Klein - Untitled Anthropometry
I found this in a Hirshhorn exhibit from 2010. And I learned from his wiki page that for his Anthropométries he used living nude models as his brushes:
Anthropométries
Despite the IKB paintings being uniformly coloured, Klein experimented with various methods of applying the paint; firstly different rollers and then later sponges, created a series of varied surfaces. This experimentalism would lead to a number of works Klein made using naked female models covered in blue paint and dragged across or laid upon canvases to make the image, using the models as "living brushes". This type of work he called Anthropometry. Other paintings in this method of production include "recordings" of rain that Klein made by driving around in the rain at 70 miles per hour with a canvas tied to the roof of his car, and canvases with patterns of soot created by scorching the canvas with gas burners.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
Despite the IKB paintings being uniformly coloured, Klein experimented with various methods of applying the paint; firstly different rollers and then later sponges, created a series of varied surfaces. This experimentalism would lead to a number of works Klein made using naked female models covered in blue paint and dragged across or laid upon canvases to make the image, using the models as "living brushes". This type of work he called Anthropometry. Other paintings in this method of production include "recordings" of rain that Klein made by driving around in the rain at 70 miles per hour with a canvas tied to the roof of his car, and canvases with patterns of soot created by scorching the canvas with gas burners.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2013
OP
Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#17
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CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
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CTyankee
Feb 2013
#43
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CTyankee
Feb 2013
#48
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CTyankee
Feb 2013
#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#46